Mamdani needs to win and win by a lot so the establishment understands people are done playing around and it carries over to the presidential primaries
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Jeffries needs to LOSE to a progressive challenger next.
aug 17, 2025, 8:56 pm • 10 1 • view
The apartment-related attacks by Cuomo are not about Cuomo winning the election, they are about damaging Mamdani as much as possible to reduce his November margin and, they hope, prevent this revolt against the establishment from going national.
aug 17, 2025, 3:43 pm • 23 1 • view
Most people in NYC know the difference between rent stabilized/controlled, so that attack is falling on def ears inside the five boroughs - but it might hurt Mamdani in the rest of the country and damage his credibility. And if they can damage him enough they hope they can cripple his administration
aug 17, 2025, 3:43 pm • 15 1 • view
I don't think the rest of the country would see the price he's paying for a 1BR as a handout
aug 18, 2025, 12:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I agree but they are going to relentless attack him for anything and the stooge media will pick it up as if it's credible because other Democrats aren't doing enough to defend him. Pathetic.
aug 18, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
The rest of the country is not voting for the mayor of NYC, so respectfully, they should shut their pie holes.
aug 17, 2025, 6:33 pm • 15 1 • view
This. Its why I couldn't endorse him but I was happy to share him around. I don't live in NY anymore so it doesn't impact me directly. But if NYC wants him then fuck yea.
aug 18, 2025, 2:13 pm • 2 1 • view
These attacks give the 1 million+ rent stabilized registered voters a very good reason to vote for Mamdani
aug 17, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, the attack is either tone-deaf, or it's meant for folks outside the city, perhaps a bit of both.
aug 17, 2025, 5:26 pm • 4 0 • view
If the future of the party is Democrats like Jeffries, I'm done with the party. The talk a lot about the kitchen table while fellating the boardroom table.
aug 17, 2025, 4:33 pm • 15 1 • view
agreed. they've been very lackluster during the regime change this year. we need real changes, not fake pandering
aug 17, 2025, 7:01 pm • 5 0 • view
💯and thankfully seeing the sea change in opinions on our supposed Dem leaders who seem to love the bennies over doing what their constituents want.
aug 18, 2025, 1:38 pm • 1 0 • view
The Democratic Machine loves to vilify their progressive caucus as the problem child... too fucking stupid to see how much damage they're doing to themselves by alienating their progressive voters. Which begs the question, who do they work for? Rhetorical, we know who.
aug 18, 2025, 2:27 pm • 1 1 • view
Amen!
aug 17, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
I cannot help but feel they'll take all the wrong lessons from it and pander even further right
aug 18, 2025, 11:28 am • 1 0 • view
It would be a start. Momentum, however, would be if a Mamdani could win in Chicago or Atlanta. Keep in mind the rest of the country votes in presidential elections too
aug 18, 2025, 1:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes! 1000% Yes‼️
aug 17, 2025, 6:09 pm • 2 0 • view
yes, please. i want him to win so badly so that establishment dems know we're done with mediocre politicians
aug 17, 2025, 6:57 pm • 6 1 • view
The " establishment" Hated Senator Paul Wellstone.. until he won... then he was their favorite son.. what you are seeing isn't new
aug 18, 2025, 12:30 am • 2 0 • view
Primaries are where the candidates are made. Progressives have a bad record of NOT voting in the primaries and off year elections. They bitch and whine about Dem candidates not representing their views entirely, then don’t show up at the ballot box because they’re not “inspired”. Republicans vote.
aug 17, 2025, 6:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Well then NYC can hopefully be a blueprint. Run the right candidate and they will come.
aug 17, 2025, 11:24 pm • 3 0 • view
There’s better candidate and worse candidates, the “right candidate” is the one who most espouses your views, and can get elected.
aug 17, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
We've shown that a progressive candidate does, in fact, have the capacity to get historic turnout in a place that's supposedly "centrist".
aug 17, 2025, 11:57 pm • 5 0 • view
Correct. And that's exactly my point. Democrats as a party manifestly don't WANT to run "the right candidates" to get extreme turnouts.
aug 17, 2025, 11:56 pm • 2 0 • view
The workers need to arm and organize now. A peaceful election that's not rigged by gerrymandering will be next to impossible soon. Join a union, gun club and/or a real radical party. No one is coming to save us.
aug 18, 2025, 8:33 am • 3 0 • view
The establishment knows what you do not, that Mamdani is a DSA twit benefitting from Trump's elevation of him. People are done with ignorant.idiits in Dem clothing being used to help elect more MAGA.
aug 31, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Agreed
aug 17, 2025, 11:52 pm • 2 0 • view
I think we need to support Mamdani but we have a whole lot of other places to focus on. There is no Democratic establishment right now, it’s a vacuum. Real leaders are rising, spotlight and support them. Take over the Party.
aug 17, 2025, 9:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't disagree but I think you are putting way too much faith in the Democratic party leadership to actually believe in things like democracy.
aug 18, 2025, 4:03 am • 6 1 • view
Yes, no more two faced corporate indebted democrats. We are done with them.
aug 18, 2025, 4:13 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly Protect this man at all costs
aug 17, 2025, 6:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Yea the only way change is going to happen is if it goes nation wide. It’s what the Tea Party did.
aug 18, 2025, 3:43 am • 4 1 • view
I think establishment dems are beyond hope. We should just primary them if they won't get on board. Starting with Hakeem Jeffries!
aug 17, 2025, 9:09 pm • 7 0 • view
Trump/red states will likely invade NYC before the election.
aug 17, 2025, 4:24 pm • 2 0 • view
they will try. ain’t gonna work out so well. lotttttta people power here. and lotttttta mad people on a good day!
aug 17, 2025, 4:34 pm • 3 0 • view
Bring Rank-Choice voting into the bigger elections. RCV gives people confidence to vote for the candidate they *actually* want.
aug 18, 2025, 4:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Amen😎
aug 17, 2025, 6:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Will they understand, though?
aug 18, 2025, 1:58 am • 2 0 • view
Agreed!!
aug 17, 2025, 3:46 pm • 3 0 • view
I believe he will win. Then he actually has to perform. Then and only then will the masses come around. Someone has to be first
aug 17, 2025, 4:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Operation ‘clear the deadwood’ starts in NYC.
aug 17, 2025, 7:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes! I am sick and tired of the DNC dictating who our candidates are. If they were any good at their job, we wouldn't be in this mess.
aug 18, 2025, 3:05 am • 11 0 • view
One hundred percent! I was sooo disappointed when Kan Martin became DNC chair. He has nothing new to say. Just promoting Dem candidates to run for office does not cut it anymore. And the kerfluffle with David Hogg (who *is* forward-thinking) was the last nail in that coffin.😰
aug 18, 2025, 11:04 am • 4 1 • view
If you think the results of a New York election should apply to a national election, you need to do your research. Not a single DSA member has ever flipped a red district. The only member of the Progressive Caucus to flip a non-urban district is Steven Horsford. You don’t have the track record.
aug 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 2 0 • view
On the contrary, centrists like Manchin, Gluesenkamp-Perez, and Tester held on to solid red seats or flipped them and held them. Roy Cooper won every county in NC. I’m not a centrist, but DSA members have no track record whatsoever to be able to give orders on what Democrats need to do to win.
aug 17, 2025, 6:18 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m progressive on most issues, but I’m also a realist, and, in comparing the results, not a single DSA member has flipped a red seat. The only progressives to flip a red seat are Horsford and Underwood, who are very establishment in demeanour.
aug 17, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
As it stands, no DSA member will ever survive the Southern primaries, because Black voters control that, and anti-establishment candidates do pretty terribly with Black voters in the South, who value track record over promises. This is genuinely why Bernie lost.
aug 17, 2025, 6:22 pm • 1 0 • view
So you will stand on the Dem track record of... Checks notes... Losing 2 out of 3 to the drooling shitgibbon? Fuck off
aug 18, 2025, 1:57 am • 4 0 • view
aug 18, 2025, 1:56 am • 1 0 • view
What happened to GOP dominance in DC in 1932, & why? Who won in 1976, & why? Conversely, what happened to Congress in 1994? We can see how progressives & populist appeals tend to do when attached to a major party. And we can see how both that party & progressives do worse when not together.
aug 18, 2025, 3:33 am • 1 0 • view
You should research the swing in support that occurred in districts Trump did better than expected in 2024 and how much they supported Mamdani in 2025. Progressives can run and win on an affordability platform especially with Trump’s tariff own goal.
aug 18, 2025, 2:03 am • 5 0 • view
What kind of idiotic political theory thinks you put your left-most candidates in the right-most districts you compete for? What a stupid, obviously idiotic proposition. You put your leftmost candidates in the leftmost districts. Seriously this is super basic stuff. Matching shapes level.
aug 18, 2025, 9:38 am • 0 0 • view
I absolutely agree that New York elections shouldn’t apply nationally, which is why Schumer and Jeffries need to be removed from leadership positions immediately, along with anyone supporting Cuomo. No more weak AIPAC moderate collaborators.
aug 18, 2025, 2:34 am • 2 0 • view
aug 18, 2025, 1:06 am • 5 0 • view
Agree
aug 17, 2025, 5:11 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m sure someone somewhere is begging Rahm Emanuel to move to NYC to run against Mamdani.
aug 18, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, talk to all, whenever they are. In CA, otherwise progressives said “but Mamdani can’t get elected—he’s too extreme—a socialist” I was screaming “STOP defeatist stupid talk! Mamdani cares abt people —what’s so damn extreme abt making life affordable? Extreme is kidnapping citizens & imprisoning”
aug 18, 2025, 8:16 am • 5 0 • view
The dem leadership better start giving Gaza the attention it deserves or they will lose the young vote again due to low turnout.
aug 17, 2025, 5:25 pm • 13 2 • view
Agreed
aug 18, 2025, 3:36 am • 2 0 • view
This would involve centrist, conservative Democrats giving literally a little bit of ground. Might still be impossible.
aug 17, 2025, 9:55 pm • 4 1 • view
Schumer and Jeffries still haven’t endorsed the winner of the Democratic primary. They have no business being leaders. Democrats in Congress need to wake up and elect fighters, not book sellers.
aug 18, 2025, 8:43 am • 1 0 • view
I mean the primaries in 2026 first!
aug 17, 2025, 11:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 6:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Yep, and don’t forget bsky.app/profile/figh...
aug 17, 2025, 3:49 pm • 3 0 • view
I support this message
aug 17, 2025, 4:14 pm • 6 0 • view
He's currently 19 points ahead. Gives me hope, but I don't put it past establishment Dems to cheat.
aug 17, 2025, 5:00 pm • 3 1 • view
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aug 18, 2025, 11:57 am • 1 0 • view
I am a boomer and I am totally fed up with the establishment. All they are interested in is continuing lining their pockets and stock portfolios. I am tired of Jefferies and playing nice. We need a huge change and handing it off to our younger generations would be that change.
aug 17, 2025, 5:11 pm • 29 1 • view
And then Mamdani should endorse a primary challenger against Jeffries.
aug 17, 2025, 3:38 pm • 34 1 • view
So, the Asian guy who checked the "BLACK/ AFRICAN AMERICAN" box in the "Race" section of his college application is going to the predominantly BLACK district to campaign against the BLACK rep who gets 80% of the vote? Mamdani would be much dumber than I thought.
aug 18, 2025, 1:49 am • 0 0 • view
Lander would be a solid pick. He's already beloved.
aug 17, 2025, 3:45 pm • 26 0 • view
Nah landers is a liberal Zionist
aug 18, 2025, 5:55 pm • 0 0 • view
K, good luck out there
aug 18, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
We need Lander in the back pocket to scare the shit out of Kathy Hochul, Lander as Governor would be amazing.
aug 17, 2025, 5:51 pm • 18 1 • view
Delgado is already laying down a path to become governor, I want to see Lander in Congress
aug 18, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
i like that idea. hochul has been pretty mediocre and too conservative for my taste. I'm not really sure she's a Democrat
aug 17, 2025, 6:58 pm • 10 0 • view
I've been saying this since the mayoral primary!
aug 18, 2025, 1:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Not in the district! Lander will be an excellent Deputy Mayor for Mamdani.
aug 18, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
Oliver do you really imagine that if Mamdani loses, Democratic primary voters will defeat Jeffries? Are you high?
aug 18, 2025, 10:36 am • 1 0 • view
You know the dnc, jerry nadler, anf leticia james support Mamdani, right?
aug 18, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view
I like him too but he messed up. Mamdani is living in a rent-controlled apt even though he's making $150,000/yr. That should have gone to someone less fortunate. Ppl have become very selfish in this country. Our society is in crisis. Need to become better ppl.
aug 18, 2025, 12:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree and agree he needs to win big but I differ in that the party/leadership/establishment are not going to “learn a lesson.” They just have to be defeated. By so doing a side benefit is moving squishy incumbents left
aug 17, 2025, 11:10 pm • 3 1 • view
And so people know what success looks like.
aug 18, 2025, 5:14 am • 3 0 • view
Same with the nov 4 redistricting ca election.
aug 17, 2025, 5:56 pm • 2 0 • view
I honestly think the establishment is going to be shocked by the primaries next year. AOC's primary times 100.
aug 17, 2025, 3:38 pm • 7 0 • view
I feel like some ppl won't vote bc "oh theres enough ppl who support them on social media, my voice doesnt matter if theres so many" so we need to make sure that everyone who can vote does bc every voice matters no matter how small.
aug 17, 2025, 4:45 pm • 4 0 • view
I don’t think any Republicans should be voted into office ever again. They destroy to much
aug 17, 2025, 11:01 pm • 3 0 • view
he could somehow win 100% of the vote and they'd just say "what works in NYC will fall flat in swing states though"
aug 18, 2025, 6:29 am • 4 0 • view
They will call it a New York anomaly. Promise.
aug 17, 2025, 6:56 pm • 4 0 • view
And that's the thing. You don't have to like everything a candidate advocates. But if their platform generally aligns with your values, you support them. The whole damn city needs to vote for this guy.
aug 18, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view
And I'd bet they still wouldn't get it
aug 18, 2025, 2:10 am • 3 1 • view
He will win if the bigots, racists, Islamophobes, and pro-genocide folks don’t sabotage him the they are trying to do repeatedly, both overtly and covertly. It was proven in the last presidential election that a weak liberal position will lose in face of maga cults. Higher ups just need to remember
aug 17, 2025, 9:59 pm • 8 0 • view
I so much agree. Time for progressives!💙💙💙
aug 18, 2025, 3:39 am • 2 0 • view
Agreed!
aug 17, 2025, 8:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Wouldn’t that be nice.
aug 17, 2025, 7:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree
aug 17, 2025, 4:37 pm • 3 0 • view
The number of people who think the mayor of nyc is somehow related to the national political conversation or the way the electoral college works really blows my mind
aug 18, 2025, 12:33 am • 4 0 • view
A MAMDANI landslide would be a public rejection of corruption, Republicans, and creepy old democrat boomers. We really need to be done with creepy old democrat boomers as well as the other two.
aug 17, 2025, 5:55 pm • 5 1 • view
I’m a 76 year old Democrat and I’m here to tell you many if us are not creeps. And there are a lot of younger deadweight Dems. Go look at the record for Kirsten Gillibrand. If they aren’t fighting we don’t need them.
aug 17, 2025, 10:55 pm • 2 0 • view
Just an FYI. She’s not up for reelection until 2030. I think by then AOC should be more than ready.
aug 18, 2025, 12:55 am • 2 0 • view
Sad. I knew. She was just re-elected. I don’t know why. Well funded by AIPAC I guess. AOC is ready now. I would follow her pretty much anywhere.
aug 18, 2025, 1:40 am • 3 0 • view
I like AOC a lot too. I’m not sure about the rest of the state of New York. Time will tell.
aug 18, 2025, 1:43 am • 2 0 • view
Much of NY is pretty right wing. I lived there for 8 yrs.
aug 18, 2025, 1:44 am • 1 0 • view
Schumer is up for reelection in 2026. According to a poll taken last April, if AOC challenged him, she would start out with a lead towards the primary. Hmm. Just hmm.
aug 18, 2025, 1:48 am • 3 2 • view
I am a non creepy Boomer as well.
aug 17, 2025, 11:47 pm • 0 0 • view
And every level in between Though the people actually have to be done playing around and voter turnout has to be off the charts record high levels to overcome the cheating.
aug 17, 2025, 7:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't think the party that changed presidential candidates months before the election and lost to a rapist felon (and then held none of the people responsible for those decisions accountable) cares what we think
aug 18, 2025, 4:47 am • 4 0 • view
I hope he does win by a ton because Jeffries dancing around endorsing Mamdani despite his primary win is pissing me off. I was super pissed at Clyburn for endorsing Cuomo in the primary, but at least he knows backing the primary winner is the way.
aug 17, 2025, 6:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Sure. While your bigoted family, friends, and neighbors continue to vote GOP and end democracy entirely. Our real problem is Federal Democratic leaders not being left enough.
aug 18, 2025, 10:28 am • 2 0 • view
Hakeem… are you listening?
aug 18, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
And also vote out JEffries as Dem House leader after he attacked Mamdani.
aug 17, 2025, 3:38 pm • 38 3 • view
Vote Jeffries out of office. He works to line his own pockets, not for us.
aug 17, 2025, 7:22 pm • 17 0 • view
Fun fact, Jeffries is more popular in his district than AOC is in hers.
aug 18, 2025, 1:43 am • 1 0 • view
‘You know I’m progressive cause I repeat the dumbest, most low quality talking points that right wing media serves up’
aug 18, 2025, 12:36 am • 9 1 • view
He literally takes a stupid amount of money from AIPAC, blackrock, MetLife, Lockheed Martin. This is all public info lol. Why the fuck do you want someone who is obviously corrupt to be in office www.opensecrets.org/members-of-c...
aug 18, 2025, 1:40 pm • 12 0 • view
‘He’s literally corrupt because he literally fundraised!!’ With takes like this you’re literally a politician analyst
aug 21, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
Because they’re a centrist ratfucker looking to stay as comfortable and unaccountable as possible
aug 18, 2025, 8:34 pm • 6 0 • view
You people fall for the easiest right wing nonsense that the CNN chyron can conjure up
aug 19, 2025, 1:24 am • 1 0 • view
aug 19, 2025, 1:25 am • 3 0 • view
sure thing grandpa
aug 19, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
Old enough to have watched young people fall for the absolute stupidest right wing talking points to elect W, trump 1 and trump 2, the 3 worse presidents in modernity, so yeah, call me grandpa cause I’m sick of intentional stupidity ruining the planet
aug 19, 2025, 2:09 am • 1 0 • view
Intentional stupidly is being shown evidence of blatant corruption and dismissing it as “right wing talking points” like an absolute moron
aug 19, 2025, 2:27 am • 1 0 • view
Also how dumb do you have to be to think CNN promotes this stuff? Have you ever watched CNN in your entire life? CNN are the ones promoting Jeffries as some kind of savior and downplaying the money he takes from defense contractors and right wing super PACs
aug 19, 2025, 2:31 am • 1 0 • view
BlueAnon is really quite something.
aug 19, 2025, 2:30 am • 1 0 • view
I’m gonna put it as simply as I can: angry and you’re lashing out at the wrong people. It’s entirely not your fault, it’s common for disempowered people to engage in horizontal conflict. But you’ve beyond lost the plot if you think CNN of all places is promoting anti-Jeffries propaganda. 1/2
aug 19, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
It’s the other way around. Jeffries is collaborating with CNN to promote anti-progressive and anti-Mamdani propaganda. He’s has every opportunity to fight the antisemitism / antisocialist smears -instead he participates in them. Try to control your panic for a second and just look at facts 2/2
aug 19, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Where’s your masters from, Reddit?
aug 21, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
“Attack” is doing some heavy lifting here. And no, we do not vote out our leaders for a mere disagreement when we are clinging to minority power to begin with.
aug 18, 2025, 12:39 am • 2 0 • view
We remove our leaders because they are feckless fucking cowards who aren't up for the current moment.
aug 18, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
“Feckless fucking cowards” is an impotent insult when there’s nothing to back it up.
aug 18, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
He didn’t really attack Mamdani; that’s quite a stretch. But he still needs to go; we need someone less into prayer and more into fighting.
aug 17, 2025, 11:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Keep attacking Hakeem and democrats WILL lose AGAIN.
aug 18, 2025, 8:16 am • 1 0 • view
Fairytales
aug 18, 2025, 9:31 am • 0 0 • view
So let it be written
aug 18, 2025, 12:37 am • 2 0 • view
So let it be done.
aug 18, 2025, 3:12 am • 2 0 • view
There will be no presidential elections According to the heritage Foundation
aug 17, 2025, 10:17 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 4:16 pm • 3 0 • view
I expect a massive landslide barring any possibility the polling shifts the other way around. He's already leading most polls since his primary victory.
aug 17, 2025, 4:17 pm • 7 0 • view
We just need to run up the score to eliminate the talking point of "oh he only won because there were so many candidates splitting the vote"
aug 18, 2025, 12:33 pm • 4 1 • view
just got back from my first canvassing session for him!
aug 17, 2025, 9:35 pm • 2 0 • view
The days of the don’t rock the boat Democrats are over. People are dealing with real life problems. The candidates that address those problems with real solutions will be the most successful. We need to stop worrying that we might look too liberal. We are running against reactionary fascists.
aug 17, 2025, 5:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Truly agree. My boomer Floridian parents are even excited about the guy.
aug 17, 2025, 7:37 pm • 5 0 • view
He is 20% deep already, he will.
aug 18, 2025, 8:12 am • 1 0 • view
Gonna knock on some doors? Go visit older people who vote because they might not make the switch without a little help... a nice, young human who helps them remember their vote will make a difference in a LOT of lives. (GOP makes them think greedy young people don't work, an easy slide to the right)
aug 17, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Seeing multiple accounts repeating that "leftists" were mad that Obama called Mamdani. And resurrecting that Mamdani didn't vote for Harris (he did). Just making shit up, and they're happy to have either of the two establishment D scumbags win instead. Weird people.
aug 17, 2025, 6:53 pm • 9 0 • view
Get out and campaign for this candidate NY!!
aug 17, 2025, 6:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Are leftists even interested in defeating Fascism or nah.
aug 18, 2025, 9:34 am • 1 0 • view
So many powerful Dems out there still trying to pretend that what's happening right now isn't actually happening. You're 100% right, I hope Mamdami wins by at least 10%!
aug 17, 2025, 5:00 pm • 10 1 • view
AMEN!
aug 18, 2025, 10:51 am • 1 0 • view
Poor crybaby.
aug 17, 2025, 10:20 pm • 1 0 • view
That's not what we'll get from a Mamdani win at all. What we'll get is a Mayor of New York, hate it for you.
aug 17, 2025, 10:32 pm • 1 0 • view
zero chance of winning
aug 18, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
And I hope the presumptive mayor declines to answer/return at least the first several calls his office receives from Leader Jeffries.
aug 17, 2025, 5:06 pm • 3 0 • view
You, @katmabu.bsky.social and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social need to realize this
aug 17, 2025, 11:35 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 17, 2025, 11:34 pm • 2 0 • view
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aug 17, 2025, 6:59 pm • 2 0 • view
YES! I so wish I could vote for him!
aug 17, 2025, 4:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Don’t count on it. If Sliwa drops out it’s a new ballgame.
aug 17, 2025, 9:31 pm • 1 1 • view
I don’t know that the establishment is smart enough to make that leap. Odds are they’ll just continue doing what they’ve been doing, replaying the same tired playbook from 1992.
aug 17, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 1 • view
If he loses the DNC will say “this is why we need to be more centrist” but if he wins they’ll say NYC is not indicative of the general US electorate, we shouldn’t take any lessons from this on a national level.
aug 17, 2025, 10:31 pm • 7 0 • view
No one listens to the DNC, especially without David Hogg.
aug 17, 2025, 11:11 pm • 2 0 • view
I just want Dem leaders to commit to grinding red voters and red states into the absolute dust.
aug 18, 2025, 12:14 am • 2 0 • view
That IS the way to get change so many claim they want to see. PROVE that it's what the majority want, instead of simply SAYING it is. Plenty of time to establish the Dem candidates - & then the nominee - after his successful run; establishment Dems don't get much *bigger* than Cuomo. #LitmusTest
aug 17, 2025, 11:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Because city dwellers are the only voters, and other non-urban voters should possess all the same concerns regardless the state of their own individual lives?
aug 18, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Here in illinois we are rooting for Kat Abughazelah. She's hot, she's smart, and she's full of heart. And she engages in direct action to help those in need.
aug 18, 2025, 8:57 am • 4 0 • view
Why does that first point matter?
aug 18, 2025, 9:52 am • 1 0 • view
That part has nothing to do with politics, its merely a compliment. Her genuine actions, values, and passion to right wrongs for a better future are the reasons I'll vote for her.
aug 18, 2025, 10:34 am • 2 0 • view
Until Dems ditch big donors, they will remain corrupted at the party level.
aug 17, 2025, 4:08 pm • 14 1 • view
Big donors need to start to understand that the citizens are the only reason they have wealth. They can either give up some of their wealth and power to the citizens or lose it all. Big donors think they can control outcomes, the citizens need to show them they can’t.
aug 17, 2025, 5:34 pm • 9 2 • view
We need a wealth redistribution big enough to stomp out fascism's appeal. Neither major party is interested. As in the 1930s, it'll take a coalition to push for it from the outside. People building power outside of Ds & Rs have the right idea.
aug 17, 2025, 5:46 pm • 9 1 • view
Yeah, I think about Teddy Roosevelt & his attack on corporate power. Could have cross-party appeal but all hell will be unleashed by corporations against a truly progressive candidate.
aug 17, 2025, 6:28 pm • 9 0 • view
And there needs to be a huge voter turnout. Stop NOT voting, people!
aug 18, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I do want him to win big but unfortunately the second he does, even with a resounding percentage everyone is going to immediately say “well I guess that works in New York but not the rest of the country 🤷♂️ “ or something like that. They did it after AOC smashed her numbers and they’ll do it again 😩
aug 18, 2025, 12:38 am • 5 0 • view
Mamdani won’t win in moderate blue areas. Called blue dog states. This has been proven over and over. Voters aren’t homogeneous. You think you’re going to find a bunch of Mamdanis to run? Like a bunch of Obamas? He’s one of a kind. Everyone is.
aug 18, 2025, 11:10 am • 0 0 • view
EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN DO.NOT.LET.UP!!
aug 18, 2025, 10:52 am • 0 0 • view
Well he's not going to be able to do that unless the people who decided not to vote last time decide to vote this time.
aug 18, 2025, 10:11 am • 0 0 • view
I am a CENTER-left dem - and - AMEN!
aug 18, 2025, 2:27 am • 3 0 • view
First, we need to get the 72% who are fed up with trump to get behind Newsom. Imagine what that message would send to the 535 blowhards too paralyzed with fear to actually do something. 435 out of 535 open seats? That would send a message real fast. 🤷♂️
aug 18, 2025, 12:05 am • 1 0 • view
Get behind how?
aug 18, 2025, 2:12 pm • 7 0 • view
financially
aug 19, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
Why are you freaks so desperate for Newsom in particular
aug 20, 2025, 6:12 pm • 2 0 • view
I never was. Never knew who he was. Just found it interesting that a democric narcissist bothers a repubican narcissist and suddenly, based on others emotional ties the world accuses me of hating the homeless even though I'm a regular at building my local food bank. (now 18 languages stong!) 🤷♂️
aug 20, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
"we need people to get behind newsom" "I was never desperate for Newsom" Lmao
aug 20, 2025, 6:20 pm • 3 0 • view
no
aug 19, 2025, 2:47 am • 8 0 • view
Newsom is a loser and you are too.
aug 20, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
I've voted in every single election since Kerry and I'll stay home and jack off before I get behind Newsom, sorry
aug 20, 2025, 5:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Actually do something? Like throw the belongings of the unhoused in your care into the garbage? Like pander to terf bullshit? Like support fracking and not be against a genocide? Like Newsom? No. If nominated, neither he nor Emanuel or Buttigieg will have my vote. Trans rights are human rights.
aug 18, 2025, 1:33 pm • 65 8 • view
All this 👆👆👆👆
aug 18, 2025, 1:38 pm • 6 0 • view
Just real quick, who’s doing the oppressing currently? Trump or Newsom? So your list of complaints about Newsom is all VERY VALID. But non-existent currently because he's not in a position to do anything yet. He’s one of 50 governors swarm to protect us from fascism. Is he not doing that?
aug 18, 2025, 1:45 pm • 0 0 • view
You spelled "smarm" wrong.
aug 18, 2025, 3:10 pm • 2 0 • view
What's the harm in asking for a candidate to be better?
aug 18, 2025, 2:37 pm • 26 2 • view
None. But in survival, eliminate the biggest threat to all life first.
aug 18, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
We have THREE YEARS before the next presidential election. You're saying we can't ask for a better candidate in THREE YEARS?!?
aug 18, 2025, 2:44 pm • 20 1 • view
idiot talking about "survival" when Gavin Newsom has already single-handedly committed himself to eliminating trans and unhoused people in the nation's richest state
aug 18, 2025, 4:17 pm • 11 1 • view
There it fucking is! Fucking perfectly put! Supporting Nazis will get you Nazis. Fuck Newsom.
aug 18, 2025, 4:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Last time I checked we can steal his plan and leave him behind? No?
aug 18, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Full stop. My “Original comment” was about Newsom’s PLAN to stop the steal of the Texas seats only. ONLY. ONLY ABOUT STOPPING THE STEAL OF SENATE SEATS. That's it. Nothing to do with the homeless or with newsom himself. We need congress to be more active about the stealing of seats. Okay. Go
aug 18, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
we're worried about survival, you're apparently only worried about "your own survival"
aug 18, 2025, 4:17 pm • 8 0 • view
The coward won't even respond to my question about having three years to make Newsom a better candidate. Not that anything would help, but if he's going to claim that it has to be Newsom, why not work to make him better instead of throwing vulnerable populations under the bus?
aug 18, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Full stop. My “Original comment” was about Newsom’s PLAN to stop the steal of the Texas seats only. ONLY. ONLY ABOUT STOPPING THE STEAL OF SENATE SEATS. That's it. Nothing to do with the homeless or with newsom himself. We need congress to be more active about the stealing of seats. Okay. Go
aug 18, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Sure. But YOU expanded the conversation in your subsequent comments. That's on YOU. So, would you like to TRY to answer my question? Or are you going to keep avoiding and deflecting?
aug 18, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Comfort defenders... liberals only want to be seen a good people not do good shit for people.
aug 18, 2025, 4:20 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm an only autistic in a consecutive family but I grew up to be an “empath.” You want someone who can troll the conservatives and make them look every bit of their 2nd grade vocabulary they have available? You just tell me who to start barking at. Independent since 12. Around ‘91? Ish.
aug 18, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
JFC his staff runs the TERFs accounts, Foley.... You really think Genocide Joe with his pickle brain was tweeting shit? lmao.
aug 19, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
Expect better from politicians than to "troll" people jfc
aug 20, 2025, 3:09 pm • 2 0 • view
No thanks, we need somebody a bit less willing to throw their comrades into the shredder
aug 19, 2025, 6:24 am • 4 0 • view
Full stop. My “Original comment” was about Newsom’s PLAN to stop the steal of the Texas seats only. ONLY. ONLY ABOUT STOPPING THE STEAL OF SENATE SEATS. That's it. Nothing to do with the homeless or with newsom himself. We need congress to be more active about the stealing of seats. Okay. Go
aug 18, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
In this case what you're doing is erasing the biggest threat to White comfort.
aug 20, 2025, 1:31 am • 0 0 • view
*survival of homeless or trans people not included
aug 20, 2025, 3:01 pm • 5 0 • view
You don't think we have trans students in Michigan but i don't live in California so I can't physically do anything for those people right now?
aug 20, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Advocating for someone who fights against them is doing the wrong thing!
aug 20, 2025, 3:08 pm • 4 0 • view
When did I ever advocate for newsom having more power or a longer term or any of that shit?
aug 20, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Both of them.
aug 18, 2025, 9:14 pm • 4 0 • view
He is not doing that.
aug 20, 2025, 2:53 am • 1 0 • view
Did you not just call it the same bird? You are all over the place, Matt. Seriously, a break might do you a power of good.
aug 18, 2025, 2:20 pm • 14 0 • view
Yeah. I'm not looking for a left solution or a right solution but something that works for everyone.
aug 18, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
with a definition of "everyone" that specifically and maliciously excludes the homeless, whom you view as an infestation of vermin rather than a community of human beings with rights and dignity
aug 18, 2025, 2:40 pm • 9 0 • view
Servial 101. Whats the biggest threat to the most amount of lives currently right now? Eliminate the largest threats first.
aug 18, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Anyone can lose their housing. Therefore any threat to the unhoused is a threat to us all. We have forgotten there but for the grace of god go I. A governor who gleefully did an actual photo op while trashing the belongings of our unhoused family is not worth your time or your vote, Matt.
aug 18, 2025, 2:55 pm • 7 0 • view
Matt has every opportunity to interpret this pushback as evidence that Newsom is a flawed candidate with huge downside and accept that there's plenty of time to get behind someone else, but he won't.
aug 18, 2025, 2:57 pm • 7 0 • view
As soon as someone better than newsom is leading and actual charge, I will get right behind them and leave newsom in the dust to answer for what he's done.
aug 18, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
So that means you want a solution from the left but you also have problems with solutions from the left you can't get over
aug 20, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
No. Fuck the left. Fuck the right. What have any of them actually done to physically remove trump?
aug 20, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
What have you done
aug 20, 2025, 10:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Me? Nothing. I shared an opinion. 😂 that's all I've done.
aug 20, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
why would you even entertain the thought of a "right" solution
aug 20, 2025, 3:02 pm • 4 0 • view
He ain't doing a good job defending us, at that, either.
aug 20, 2025, 6:45 pm • 2 0 • view
I get newsom is a fuck. I live in Michigan and can't and had nothing to do with that. He is whats on the political board like it or not and his tactics have caused the Republicans to switch from constant offense and it was a punch thrown back. Mere observation.
aug 20, 2025, 9:59 pm • 0 0 • view
No, he agrees with them on at least one minority group and gleefully destroyed the belongings of homeless people for a photo op. He’s a ghoul.
aug 20, 2025, 5:39 pm • 1 0 • view
So, "us" clearly doesn't include homeless people, eh?
aug 18, 2025, 3:42 pm • 11 1 • view
Please point out where I specifically said that to get trump out we can not care about the homeless. Because I've never said a thing like that in life. Otherwise, stop grabbing at straws.
aug 18, 2025, 3:48 pm • 0 0 • view
He's not protecting the homeless in his state from fascism, you dim bulb
aug 18, 2025, 3:49 pm • 14 1 • view
If you're pro Newsom & you don't know how he treats homeless people, you should get more informed before you start to simp.
aug 20, 2025, 6:03 pm • 2 0 • view
You’re completely overlooking the point that both Trump and Newsom are dehumanizing them and devaluing them - equally - with their open contempt. This devaluation of them and dehumanization of them is essential in fascism. Both are fully and equally participating in fascism.
aug 19, 2025, 12:51 am • 6 0 • view
And Newscum is getting the left and center to dehumanize them, and that's bad
aug 20, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
The ONLY thing of newom’s that I agreed with were 1) The way he’s mocking trump because of how damaging it is to a narcissist. 2) Looking out Texas losing 5 seats. Never supported a policy or a previous action of his. So people are taking my mentioning those 2 things and painting me as a
aug 19, 2025, 1:02 am • 0 0 • view
Newsom fan boy because it makes them feel better that I couldn't even vote for him living in Michigan and never heard of him before the summer. 🤷♂️ Tis life.
aug 19, 2025, 1:02 am • 0 0 • view
He is not protecting anyone from fascism. You asked if he was doing so. I answered your question
aug 19, 2025, 1:04 am • 6 0 • view
Can it both be true that he's a shithead and doesn't deserve to breathe but his handling of trump is effective and Texas needs help saving 5 seats?
aug 19, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
Yes. I will hold my nose and hand it to him and be appreciative of his efforts towards this redistricting effort. Bad people can occasionally do good things. I will laud him with praise if he supports a good nominee. He is not that.
aug 19, 2025, 1:17 am • 2 0 • view
I would say, (this is just me) he’s kinda showed his true colors, I wouldn't trust him with power in my state, regardless what he ran as.
aug 19, 2025, 1:21 am • 1 0 • view
Newsome is also oppressing people, that’s the whole problem dummy
aug 18, 2025, 3:14 pm • 10 0 • view
Going to blow your mind here: Two bad people
aug 20, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I never said newsom was good. I'm just in reality and understand until the midterms he's what we have. Mad about that? Blame Cali. I'm from Detroit.
aug 20, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
And this why Left/right politics will be the death of democracy. Been an independent since I was 12 and learned what bullshit was. Left wing, right wing SAME FUCKING BIRD.
aug 18, 2025, 1:45 pm • 1 0 • view
You don't want Independent anything. You're shitting your pants because people won't sacrifice the humanity of Trans people or Homeless people for your favorite weird freak on Team Blue.
aug 20, 2025, 5:38 pm • 2 0 • view
My middle child is trans and I love her just as much as my other 2 and admire her bravery. But keep going with all your vast knowledge of me based on 1 comment.
aug 20, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
You're supporting someone who thinks that your middle child should have their rights stripped from them? Why are you a bad father?
aug 20, 2025, 5:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Show me specifically where I endorse a person vs give credit ANYONE and their approach at battling trump?
aug 20, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Log off and try to be a better father. bsky.app/profile/did:...
aug 20, 2025, 6:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Christ you're an awful father
aug 20, 2025, 5:48 pm • 2 0 • view
We get it, Matt; Your priority is electoral politics over the welfare of homeless people, but please stop bragging about it. Not a good look. #Compassion #Humanity #Kindness #GoldenRule #Love
aug 18, 2025, 1:54 pm • 13 0 • view
Or… as someone who worked in the emergency medical field for 17 years not being Republican nor democratic while doing it just working my ass off to give people a second chance at life and after doing that for a fast food workers wage for 17 years and never “earning” a livable wage like the
aug 18, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Generations before me did, while trying to raise 3 neurodivergent kids with a wife going through postpartum when I got home after work I never wanted to give a shit about what talking suits think of working people? Could be you're thing, maybe it's mine? 🤷♂️ Want me to tell you what I really
aug 18, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Think about California over all and the optics of the state overall? Even with all the wonderful different cultures that make up the state, its seems to be run like a white privilege state. Now THERE’S A POLITICAL TOPIC FOR YOU.
aug 18, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
If you’re homeless in California, it’s both. But you don’t care much about people less fortunate than you, do you?
aug 20, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
You don’t think governors have the ability to oppress?
aug 20, 2025, 3:07 pm • 15 0 • view
I do think the do. I don't think there's a way in reality we can change any political figures until then midterms but in the mean time a pedophile roam of the hallways of the white house and that shit has to go since Al least 1776 and hasn't yet. I think when America got rid of a king they simply
aug 20, 2025, 3:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Traded one tirant 3000 miles away for 3000 tirants 1 mile away. Change my mind.
aug 20, 2025, 3:12 pm • 0 0 • view
We enslaved ourselves to the idea of America. Time to wake up and realize America only sees you for one thing. How much $$$ can you make the government?
aug 20, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Nope—still not getting you. Something about a sheep?
aug 20, 2025, 4:00 pm • 5 0 • view
I don't pledge allegiance to a political movment but to humanity and what it needs. You? How do you vote? Red or blue?
aug 20, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 and whatever colors are on the flag for human rights when the humans are homeless
aug 20, 2025, 9:36 pm • 2 0 • view
How’s that workin out for ya?
aug 20, 2025, 6:45 pm • 5 0 • view
So your binary either/or question of who’s doing the oppressing seems like a pretty shitty way to begin convincing people of your position, given that even you don’t believe it. Coooool discourse
aug 20, 2025, 3:56 pm • 4 0 • view
"Not in position to do anything yet" Do Californians not count?
aug 18, 2025, 3:44 pm • 7 1 • view
He is absolutely oppressing people in California, why would you give him the chance to oppress on a wider scale?
aug 20, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
He is actively oppressing and harming trans people in CA, and bc this state often sets the bar on issues that are considered progressive, he is also causing disproportionate harm to trans people everywhere. “Even Newsom says it’s unfair for trans people to play sports…” is being cited everywhere rn
aug 18, 2025, 1:55 pm • 33 4 • view
If Chris Farley was still alive he’d slap the shit out of you, little boy.
aug 18, 2025, 2:38 pm • 13 0 • view
😂
aug 18, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
So who in Congress is taking actionary steps to put an end to trump walking around free at the moment? Any other “plans” than what Newsom is doing? I’d love to hear, see, support, get behind them as well. In war the enemy of my enemy is something I can tolerate to get rid of the bigger threat.
aug 18, 2025, 1:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Our trans family's lives are in danger which is the bigger threat to them right now. I will 100% get behind the State attorneys general in this: ag.ny.gov/sites/defaul... I can only hope that the courts decide for the states involved and the administration heeds the ruling. That is a huge hope.
aug 18, 2025, 2:10 pm • 3 0 • view
I love 💛 and stand with the LGBTQ+ community. Salt of the earth. Honest. Amazing community to hang out with!
aug 18, 2025, 2:16 pm • 0 0 • view
You're being paid for this right? right?
aug 19, 2025, 2:53 am • 1 0 • view
no, I think he’s just being a clown for love of the game
aug 20, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Um like days ago some aked and I openly admitted if you don't take politics seriously I'm hilarious but if you were you're emotions and political views on your sleeve i’m a nightmare to do with. No one researches before debating these days.
aug 20, 2025, 10:10 pm • 0 0 • view
yes, we know you don't do any research because it would take time away from your brunches, and it's soooooo inconvenient to think or care about other people
aug 20, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Newsome? Fuck that
aug 20, 2025, 5:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Nyet
aug 20, 2025, 3:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Agree, Allie; ☺️ 💯💯💯👍✊✌️ Nyet Nyet Nyet
aug 20, 2025, 3:18 pm • 2 0 • view
You act as though we have to refill the senate with Republicans and democrats only.
aug 20, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
You seem to not know how the American government functions. 435 house members. Yes. And about 30 senators are up for election in 2026
aug 20, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
fuck trump fuck newsom and fuck you
aug 20, 2025, 5:51 pm • 2 0 • view
You don't seem particularly grounded in material reality.
aug 19, 2025, 3:08 am • 5 0 • view
I say this with my whole chest: fuuuuuck newsom. and fuck any sort of insistence that we should all rally behind someone who turns his back on trans people and revels in personally terrorizing unhoused individuals
aug 21, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
Nah. Fuck Newsome. He’s not getting nominated, let it go
aug 20, 2025, 3:07 pm • 17 2 • view
No.
aug 18, 2025, 3:43 pm • 6 0 • view
Why would that send a message to Trump? Newsom is a piece of shit. To send a message, you have to elect someone who's not also a piece of shit.
aug 20, 2025, 6:01 pm • 2 0 • view
im fucking done with this shit. get out of the way
aug 20, 2025, 5:49 pm • 19 3 • view
why? that guy sucks
aug 19, 2025, 2:51 am • 4 0 • view
YES!!!!
aug 17, 2025, 6:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Not enough to overcome voters
aug 17, 2025, 5:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Totally agree! Change must happen or we are doomed to repeat our failures.
aug 17, 2025, 5:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Totally agree time to say goodbye to the Clinton's influence In the Dem. Party
aug 17, 2025, 3:47 pm • 25 1 • view
Bill Clinton.
aug 17, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
You mean the billionaires influence he invited into the party needs to get lost?
aug 17, 2025, 3:56 pm • 17 1 • view
And people need to educate themselves on Mamdani’s platform.
aug 17, 2025, 10:14 pm • 4 0 • view
We need the 2026 primaries to put the fear of God into the establishment.
aug 17, 2025, 3:37 pm • 67 3 • view
Truest statement on the internet.
aug 17, 2025, 3:44 pm • 11 0 • view
you’d think getting trounced by someone like trump would have already shown them that.
aug 18, 2025, 12:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, but we also need to go back to being the calm voices of education and try to get more of these Centrists to become Liberals, and more of these Liberals to become Progressives. The Overton window is so skewed that we are fucked if we don't rebuild the broad coalition, unpalatable as it is.
aug 17, 2025, 7:11 pm • 6 0 • view
The pressure to call out the genocide is working, so that needs to continue, but we also need to keep our eyes on the prize and remember our ultimate goal must be removing this regime without violence...and that means overwhelming show of electoral force, especially as primary season begins.
aug 17, 2025, 7:11 pm • 4 0 • view
But also, buy a gun while you can just in case.
aug 17, 2025, 7:11 pm • 2 0 • view
They will insist it’s local politics. NY is a very liberal city. It’s easy to win with those policies in very blue areas. Moderates like free markets and bipartisan compromise, drilling for oil and tax subsidies for rich people…
aug 17, 2025, 6:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Scheumer said the Baileys aren't voting for him so what chance does he have?
aug 17, 2025, 11:25 pm • 3 0 • view
The USA 🇺🇸 MUST HAVE A 21ST CENTURY FDR
aug 18, 2025, 3:31 am • 2 0 • view
I freaking love Mamdani. ❤️
aug 18, 2025, 3:15 pm • 0 0 • view
No…and now I’m wondering why I ever followed you.
aug 18, 2025, 10:31 am • 2 0 • view
I said exactly this to my friend the other day. We need to show up to make sure he wins by a crazy amount. And after, we need to keep the pressure on any one who will try to sabotage his efforts in office so they can say his ideas "just won't work". We have to stay engaged way past November.
aug 17, 2025, 8:58 pm • 12 1 • view
BingFuckingGo
aug 18, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
It doesn’t matter, those who break bread at our table needs to understand for now until forever, they work for us, not vice versa!!! This is why we are here, we, for too long, have allowed them to tell us how to feel…..
aug 18, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ll kick the can down the road by claiming NYC is a special case, and they’ll wait for him to stumble then claim he’s the wrong man for the challenge.
aug 18, 2025, 1:10 am • 4 0 • view
I think you are right. And fuck them.
aug 18, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Oliver, you're 100% right.
aug 17, 2025, 5:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Agree
aug 18, 2025, 3:08 pm • 0 0 • view
I sincerely hope he wins in a landslide! I wish I could vote for him. I used to live in Queens when I was first married.
aug 17, 2025, 4:18 pm • 3 0 • view
YES!
aug 17, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
They will learn nothing from it. They have never learned we don’t want centralists
aug 20, 2025, 6:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I sure as shit dont want to see buttigieg or newsom at the top of the ticket....and there absolutely better not be harris or biden there either
aug 18, 2025, 10:58 am • 5 0 • view
And if he doesn’t will you realize his proposals are not popular?
aug 17, 2025, 9:03 pm • 2 0 • view
We already know what when he does you won't acknowledge they are.
aug 17, 2025, 11:21 pm • 3 0 • view
You know nothing of the kind.
aug 18, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
You know what? That's actually super fair. Let's roll it back: If he does will you realize his policies are in fact popular?
aug 18, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
If he wins I would understand that his policies were popular with NY voters. The degree of his victory would indicate the level of popularity. Do you disagree?
aug 18, 2025, 6:27 pm • 0 0 • view
I do not! I would note however he already had a historic primary win with the highest turnout EVER in NYC history. That's already a strong indication. Do you agree? Also of course by the same token if he somehow lost it would only apply to NYC. I note you swapped from general to specific.
aug 18, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
I appreciate your enthusiasm for his primary win, however general elections can be quite different. We’ll see. Additionally, I don’t believe what wins in NYC is what wins in other locations. So a victory in NYC doesn’t apply everywhere.
aug 18, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
And would you care to acknowledge that it is literally an unheard of historic primary win regardless of what happens next?
aug 18, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I don’t see anything historic about his primary win. He’s a charismatic candidate who has effectively tapped into the frustrations of younger voters. He’s fortunate to have faced a horrible candidate in Cuomo. Again, nothing historic.
aug 18, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
The most votes in history. THE HIGHEST YOUTH TURNOUT IN HISTORY. If you think people turned out to a primary they never vote in because Cuomo was uniquely bad in some way, then you know so little about civics there's no point continuing the conversation. That's...just not how elections work.
aug 18, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
In what way?
aug 18, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
He got the most votes of any candidate in NYC history with a massive turnout from the "hasn't voted in at least ten years" demographic.
aug 18, 2025, 7:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Would you like to adjust your original comment to reflect that losses in NYC ALSO don't reflect other locations?
aug 18, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
The issue I’m addressing here relates to a point in the original post, namely that a decisive win by Zohran in NYC should instruct the national party to adopt his platform. I don’t agree with that at all.
aug 18, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you also disagree with the statement "if he doesn't win in NYC then the Democrats should take that as a sign to not use his platform"?
aug 18, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
He's also currently curb stomping in the polls for the general, and primaries have SMALLER turnouts, which tend to favor the more conservative factions. It definitely isn't over yet by a long shot but predictions do support him.
aug 18, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
he’s going to
aug 17, 2025, 3:34 pm • 4 0 • view
I still remember when D's served the working people rather than their billionaire donors. They need to get back to that by being yanked back to the center by ELECTED lefties. Andrew Cuomo has many of the same donors as TRUMP. That's bullshit.
aug 17, 2025, 10:15 pm • 4 0 • view
Moving forward: We the people choose our candidates👉NO MORE OF THIS SHIT SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS: abcnews.go.com/Politics/die...
aug 17, 2025, 4:06 pm • 15 0 • view
100%
aug 18, 2025, 5:42 am • 2 0 • view
it feels good here on the streets. lots of Zohran Mamdani For Mayor posters all over. Lots of deep blue here, but also a lot of older dems (and Rs!) who might choose to go with the ex-Gov white guy. Tough to know. Also quite poss the youngins put him over the top. Gonna be a nailbiter! 1/
aug 17, 2025, 4:46 pm • 6 0 • view
I will fill in the bubble next to his name so slowly to savor every moment of my vote. Can’t wait.
aug 17, 2025, 4:46 pm • 8 1 • view
also also… one more important thing… this will NOT be a ranked-choice vote in Nov. that is one big reason why Mamdani won the primary bc of his skill at navigating the subtleties of that — and Cuomo’s total ignorance of that. this will be a trad ballot, winner takes all.
aug 17, 2025, 4:50 pm • 7 0 • view
Win so easily that Gillibrand buys a kaffiyeh to pander to midterm voters
aug 17, 2025, 4:20 pm • 43 3 • view
🤣
aug 17, 2025, 4:25 pm • 8 0 • view
Spot on, Oliver, spot on.
aug 17, 2025, 4:37 pm • 4 0 • view
Damn right it carries over to the presidential elections!
aug 17, 2025, 7:07 pm • 3 0 • view
The same people who voted for Mamdani (that put him ahead) voted for Trump in November 2024. It's not the own you think it is. Mamdani isn't the second coming of Bernie Sanders who, btw, loses everywhere but Vermont. That "establishment" excuse at this point is boring 🙄
aug 18, 2025, 12:46 am • 2 0 • view
Bitch, Bernie Sanders won my small town Iowa caucus by 2 to 1 over Hillary. Mamdani would fucking coast here, if he were eligible to run for POTUS.
aug 18, 2025, 2:04 am • 4 0 • view
Oh, and just so we're clear it wasn't a one-off -- Bernie also won my precinct quite handily in 2020, even in a crowded field. Biden wasn't even viable.
aug 18, 2025, 2:09 am • 3 0 • view
Bernie lost in 2016, 2020. Candidates associated with his name lost in the midterms. Maybe it's time for the Bernie bro/DSA types in the Democratic party form their own party? Ijs. Might work out better all around.
aug 19, 2025, 9:25 am • 0 0 • view
They did not. This is farcically untrue. But I’d like to attack that idea directly. This stupid, child-like idea animates all of centrist thought: that they’re losing votes of the left to the right. You idiots compete every time for conservative votes and lose them every time and blame us for it.
aug 18, 2025, 9:05 am • 1 0 • view
There is an entire political philosophy based on the idea that political parties are competing for the same groups of voters. This is flatly untrue when considering political ideology. We do not compete for the same groups of voters *at all*. Elections are won by turning out your own base.
aug 18, 2025, 9:08 am • 1 0 • view
So the idiot centrist strategy of slagging the left to gain votes from the right never, ever works. There is almost no overlap between the parties’ voting bases. None. The elections are win and lost by turning out your base. If you lose it’s because people stayed home. You’re slagging them. Stupid.
aug 18, 2025, 9:08 am • 1 0 • view
You idiot centrists say completely insane things like “elections aren’t popularity contests.” They’re literally, definitionally, popularity contests. That’s what elections are. Your unpopular politicians are destroying our country by sucking at winning electrons. Stop it.
aug 18, 2025, 9:09 am • 1 0 • view
Maybe take a political science class? Or, a civics one.
aug 18, 2025, 9:28 am • 0 0 • view
Teach one, maybe, with my JD focused on public policy and a decade’s service to the Navy as a uniformed JAG. Oh wait I have taught those. Maybe, just maybe, your stupendously arrogant self is wrong about this one, idk.
aug 18, 2025, 9:29 am • 0 0 • view
Not just turning out your own base. There are undecided, swing voters, Independents and voters who will cross party vote - these are the voters the parties complete for. Besides, both parties base voters are divided amongst themselves so we need those other voters.
aug 18, 2025, 9:27 am • 0 0 • view
There are not and this misconception is why centrist Democrats lost twice to W and twice to Trump. Loser ideology right there. There is no proof to this idiotic “swing voter” concept. Familiarize yourself with the graduate-level scholarship on the topic before speaking to me again about this. Fool.
aug 18, 2025, 9:32 am • 1 0 • view
But let’s say there are voters out there who cannot tell the difference between Trump and not-crazy. Why would you even do anything to compete for those bigot votes besides humiliate them publicly? What rational person says “the most important voters are the bigots who might vote Trump”? Stupid.
aug 18, 2025, 9:32 am • 1 0 • view
Anyway that’s a proven loser political theory and people still saying it in 2025 should be viewed with suspicion. They’re trying to help us lose again.
aug 18, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
It *is* true and the math proves it out. You can do that, you can talk all that BS but you're not arguing with me, you're arguing with MATH. Now let's try this again and I'm going to give you a gift here that I'm sure you don't know about: get yourself familiar with, The Latino Vote podcast.
aug 18, 2025, 9:19 am • 0 0 • view
There is no evidence for your flatly untrue claim and if it’s math why don’t you walk up here to the front of the class and do it on the board for the rest of the students.
aug 18, 2025, 9:23 am • 1 0 • view
are you suggesting that elections in America sometimes involve voters who are not particularly loyal to either party and might "swing" the election in one direction or another
aug 18, 2025, 1:58 am • 5 0 • view
This is a flatly untrue belief about the American voting populace and that idiotic belief is why Dems keep losing elections they should absolutely be winning. There are two bases. 95% of conservatives vote for Republicans. The elections are won by turning out your *own* base. Not slagging them.
aug 18, 2025, 9:11 am • 1 0 • view
Plenty of Mamdani voters also voted for Trump. It would basically be impossible for him to reverse the margins otherwise. The Mamdani campaign will happily talk about this. Why is it upsetting? It means he had a resonant message, among other things.
aug 18, 2025, 10:01 am • 0 0 • view
This is not true. There are MAGA voters & Conservative voters & there is a difference between these 2 groups. Not every Conservative is extreme MAGA GOP. They're just not. Conservatives will either stay home, vote Dem or they will vote GOP because they have been doing it their whole lives.
aug 18, 2025, 9:37 am • 0 0 • view
Point me to anything demonstrating this. You do not need to tell me centrist political theory over and over again. I understand that’s what you think. It just isn’t true. And losing election after election should’ve told you that already. Your basic political assumptions are proven false.
aug 18, 2025, 9:41 am • 1 0 • view
And don’t repeat yourself again. Present actual evidence for your extraordinary claims. It should be easy to do this if you’re actually correct about that. But you won’t be able to because that’s a cracked way to look at politics in the first place. Like proving up is down.
aug 18, 2025, 9:43 am • 1 0 • view
So you're just brain dead, huh
aug 18, 2025, 3:21 am • 1 0 • view
Counterpoint: you should suck a hangover fart directly out of my ass, you soggy pig.
aug 18, 2025, 1:52 am • 0 0 • view
So tell me, are you a troll, or just truly this brainless?
aug 18, 2025, 3:32 am • 1 0 • view
Just vote for the person willing to help the American people !!!
aug 18, 2025, 1:56 pm • 0 0 • view
A man can dream
aug 17, 2025, 9:35 pm • 2 0 • view
And congressional primaries as well, to be clear
aug 17, 2025, 3:33 pm • 230 4 • view
The Clinton-Obama consultant cartel has to be broken
aug 17, 2025, 3:35 pm • 372 29 • view
It’s the classic definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
aug 17, 2025, 4:06 pm • 4 0 • view
See also; Sanders, Bernie. Multiple failed attempts at nomination.
aug 17, 2025, 4:29 pm • 5 0 • view
Thank you.
aug 17, 2025, 5:02 pm • 2 0 • view
This implies that they want different results. The current arrangement suits their donors just fine
aug 18, 2025, 11:09 am • 1 0 • view
Their incompetence helped usher Trump back into power. Ditch the Clintons, too. They're both millstones. Begone!
aug 17, 2025, 7:26 pm • 8 2 • view
Especially when the files are finally released!
aug 18, 2025, 1:12 pm • 1 0 • view
You mean the billionaires with oil money need to get the fuck out of the DNC? We don’t want your evil money.
aug 17, 2025, 3:55 pm • 1 0 • view
as long as Adams and Cuomo stay in the race until the bitter end it will most likely be a blowout. If Adams quits then it will probably be somewhat closer
aug 17, 2025, 3:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Good luck without Obama, WE that are sitting out this regime, WILL sit out the election. You lot go ahead.
aug 18, 2025, 8:13 am • 0 0 • view
Oh, for the love of God, yes!!!!!!!
aug 17, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
also they should be executed
aug 18, 2025, 1:15 am • 0 0 • view
Count me as someone who thinks: 1) Steel sharpens steel 2) A tough primary doesn't diminish its winner's chances and we should be putting the strongest candidate forward. 3) If you can't win a primary as the incumbent, you were waiting for someone to steal your lunch money in the general anyway.
aug 17, 2025, 6:34 pm • 10 2 • view
4. We're squandering a lot of talent by forcing talented House Reps to wait for a senator to lose or retire to take a crack at it, same holds true down the chain and leadership elections. 5. Most of our senators would lose if they were in a fair fight against the most talented member of Congress.
aug 17, 2025, 6:40 pm • 6 2 • view
We need to put the best team on the table. We have a lot of very nice people in leadership, but they aren't up to digging in their heels, shutting stuff down and extracting a bunch of concessions. That means being difficult and sometimes you need to tell your Senate gym buddies to fuck themselves
aug 17, 2025, 6:42 pm • 7 2 • view
Yes, God forbid we listen to the best election-winners alive today. I thought you were smarter than this. I guess I was wrong.
aug 17, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ve won because we believed them so WE activated grassroots in their behalf. They’re losing because they lied. Consultants have nothing to do with that. If they did, we wouldn’t have lost twice to the worst of the worst.
aug 17, 2025, 5:28 pm • 7 0 • view
On their behalf lol
aug 18, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
They never lied. They told you what the Republicans would do, and you didn't believe them. Instead, you believed the lies about them, and didn't vote for them again. This shit is on you people, every bit as much as it's on the people who voted for Fat Bastard.
aug 18, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
I didn’t just vote for the dems, i helped on the ground. Every damn election. I know very well each candidate’s proposals, policies, promises and campaign chants, as well as when we were simply cut off from the people we’ve helped and unfollowed in groups when it was done. Who are you to preach?
aug 18, 2025, 1:47 am • 3 0 • view
Israel is committing a genocide.
aug 18, 2025, 1:53 am • 2 0 • view
Obama would have won with me as his campaign manager, and James Carville last won 35 years ago.
aug 18, 2025, 1:52 am • 6 0 • view
Reverence for rich white men is definitely how we fix this.
aug 18, 2025, 1:53 am • 2 0 • view
Rich white men like Bernie Sanders?
aug 18, 2025, 2:14 am • 0 0 • view
Which elections? The biggest previous win was Obama in 2008. That's 17 long years.
aug 18, 2025, 1:51 am • 3 0 • view
And I'll add. I'm a New Yorker visiting Richmond for the first time this week. I am staying in a hipster neighborhood (called The Fan). Listening to 19 year olds here has been fascinating. They are radicals by Obama's standards. Even more far left than Brooklyn kids.
aug 18, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
The last win was Biden in 2020. That's 5 years. And Kamala was probably cheated, just as much as Hillary was. Meanwhile, Bernie has never won.
aug 18, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
lol
aug 18, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 0 • view
Lmao James Carville hasn't won an election in almost 35 years. That one was at state Senate level. Best election-winners are where, exactly?
aug 17, 2025, 7:11 pm • 27 0 • view
Okay, name me a Democrat who has won a Presidential election more recently. Oh, but that would require you to name one of Obama's people. You really want one of Bernie's people. That bum has never won.
aug 18, 2025, 1:48 am • 1 0 • view
It's funny, I've never said anything of the kind. You really should learn to think beyond an either/or choice as if there are only ever two options. It's quite limiting.
aug 18, 2025, 1:51 am • 5 0 • view
As a matter of fact, neither did Oliver. You're firing blanks.
aug 18, 2025, 1:53 am • 3 0 • view
You still haven't named a Democratic campaign operative who's won a Presidential election more recently than Carville. He knows about winning elections. Bernie's people don't know shit about it.
aug 18, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
And you're still the only person to have mentioned Bernie - twice now. I'll be honest, I muted you hours ago, and only even knew you had responded because someone liked my earlier comment. Nothing you've said has changed my mind about that decision. Here's a thought before I go -
aug 18, 2025, 2:27 am • 0 0 • view
We don't need to choose someone from *either group*, when one hasn't been able to get over with the middle on two attempts, and the other hasn't known what they were doing for at least a dozen years (referencing Obama's wins wasn't the flex you thought). We can and *should* choose new consultants.
aug 18, 2025, 2:27 am • 1 0 • view
The best election winner like james carville?
aug 17, 2025, 5:36 pm • 3 0 • view
aug 18, 2025, 1:41 am • 0 0 • view
Lmao that man hasn’t won since Clinton
aug 18, 2025, 1:51 am • 9 0 • view
Honestly you should probably just [tos]
aug 18, 2025, 1:42 am • 3 0 • view
Nothing will get better until this happens.
aug 17, 2025, 3:35 pm • 36 2 • view
This. I can tell who is listening to Clinton-Obama era consultants
aug 17, 2025, 11:44 pm • 10 2 • view
Leave Obama out of the motley crew.
aug 18, 2025, 8:14 am • 1 0 • view
He’s just as milquetoast and consultant-brained as the others. He would be doing nothing different from the rest of Dem leadership right now
aug 18, 2025, 11:08 am • 6 0 • view
That part! Limp noodle.
aug 18, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 0 • view
youtu.be/cZkzhvaRY9M?... This is who the Corporate Democrats really are. They threaten anyone that goes against the Israel lobbyist. We don't have anything because of corporate pac money and lobbyist. No uhc,hi drug prices ,climate change and etc because of corporate pac money
aug 17, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view